re: #397 Vicious Babushka

“SMALL BUSINESS” LIKE WALMART.

I read a book awhile back I believe called “Bully of Bentonville” about the rise of Wal-Mart and the related controversies. Really eye opening.

One section that really stood out to me was about how Sam Walton used to use a law meant for small businesses to justify paying his employees LESS than minimum wage. He was taken to court over it and argued that each Wal-Mart store was, in effect, its own “small business” and he should therefore be allowed to pay his employees less than minimum wage.

It got appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court where, thank goodness, he lost.